reader

She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

The last chapter in 'Alice in Worcestershire' is called 'Writing the book'.I started to write that 'Diary' chapter at the very beginning of the process and followed it through to the end... speaking to the reader.My decision to do this was because I've often read autobiographies and wondered how the author felt and how it impacted them writing about painful memories that had been locked away in a deep forgotten place.I wanted to know what was going in their 'present' life while they were writing; about the struggle with sharing their inner secrets and... I'm... inquisitive. (nosy)!It took me over five years to finish 'Alice in Worcestershire' because sometimes, I was simply too drained to continue. Periodically, I updated the 'Diary' chapter and, thankfully, it's enthusiastically appreciated by readers.

The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.

Turn the page, your heroine is still there, breathe, relax, life is beautiful: you're in a book!

The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of them. But with a book you can stay up very late, reading until all the secrets are clear to you. The questions of the world are hidden forever, but the answers in a book are hiding in plain sight.

Haiku does not express emotion from the inside out by displaying the mind of a character. Haiku builds the emotional thrust, makes the artistic statement from the outside in, from the physical world to the mind of the reader.

You are not responsible for the reader, you're only responsible for what you are writing.

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable

If you want to challenge yourself as an Author, raise the bar as a reader.-Suzanne Steele

I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers _ there always were. Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

Why, of course, if the reader were smart enough, he could figure the whole thing through after just the first few pages! But in his heart Arthur knew that his readers didn't really want to win. They wanted to test their wits against the author at full pitch, and they wanted to lose. To be dazzled.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.

It ain't just about writing on some documents,author writes on to the readers' heart and mind.

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.